1) Delighted to be on
@BBCTheOneShow
to highlight the worrying & rising trend of ear cropping in dogs. Full clip: . An illegal mutilation by backyard butcher breeders here in the UK under the guise of importing already cropped dogs legally. A ๐งต
@DFMTalent
Not content w/covering entire car parks in tarmac, they take out the last patches of living, breathing soil & space for nature to line it w/gross, plastic astroturf. Not berry bearing bushes, or flowering ones for pollinators. Plastic shite! The
@Shitlawns
takeover gets worse
Anyone else just feeling apathetic, fed up, questioning whatโs the point trying to save nature and the planet with the absolute power hungry, money hungry scumbags in politics who can only focus on short term gain and growth at all costs?! Total BS. No? Just me? Tips welcome๐คฆ
Aware of peak โgrumpy old manโ here but faith in humanity is low today. Why celebrate your Baby Boy arriving in the world by letting off sky litter to land in an old oak tree ready to entangle the Barn Owl chicks about to emerge?! Because this is where they end up!
What on earth are you doing advertising your
@BentleyMotors
cars using an illegally mutilated ear cropped dog alongside?! This is cosmetic surgery banned on cruelty grounds. And you know what they say about using fancy cars, and tough guy butchered dogs, as status symbolsโฆ
London Underground House Mouse. Not a regular little mouse life. Did you know there are half a million mice living in the tube system, entire lives never seeing daylight, surviving on litter & dropped crumbs? They are blacker than their luxury digs mouse cousins, due to soot!
Fantastic news! My trailcamera I thought got washed away in the floods some weeks ago was found and handed in. And just look at the spectacular footage it had captured! Happy days ๐๐๐ผ
@DFMTalent
Iโm just SO tired of
@Crufts
show ring BS & banging on about morals/ethics of parading dogs around a ring for awards to feed human ego & vanity that I nearly didnโt share this. But why on earth did nobody object to this? Poor old dog could do with pain relief & a comfy bed๐คฆ
Cranky opinion alert. This seems excessive, doesnโt it? Does end justify the means? Think these ringing chaps (& is inordinately old silver haired chaps) can get carried away in their endeavours sometimes to see wood for the trees. Way to spoil a wild bird with plastic litter ๐คฆ
Why are
@PostOffice
advertising their pet insurance using imagery of a dog with its ears cropped?! An illegal cosmetic mutilation in the UK, done for nothing more than fashion & aesthetics. Advertisers need to stop glamorising cruelty, agencies to refuse to represent cropped dogs
Our proposed site for beaver reintroduction, Paradise Fields, Ealing. Waiting for
@NaturalEngland
licence, fingers crossed theyโll see our vision & give us news soon. What do you think? Is it time we studied the impact of beaver on urban river catchments in controlled conditions?
An army of dedicated volunteers today putting final touches to Ealing Beaver Project enclosure, a unique urban London beaver wetland, fully publicly accessible once beavers settle in. They arrive next week! Watch this spaceโฆ
@WildlifeEaling
@CitizenZoo
@FriHoHi
@EalingCouncil
Ealing Beavers slowing the flow, holding back floodwaters, increasing groundwater storage capacity and opening up the canopy by coppicing fairly large willows now. Magic!
#ealingbeaverproject
Complete misinformation. Do better. The โstudyโ is a statistically insignificant biased survey of vegan owners of cats fed vegan diets. No such thing as vegan cats. Human construct. Want a vegan pet? Get a rabbit, not an obligate carnivore cat. Iโll await the vegan mafia now ๐๐
Cats had better outcomes when fed vegan diets for every health indicator, representing a strong and consistent trend. Study shows vegan cats are healthier than meat-fed ones | GlobalPETS
Feast your eyes on this gloopy mess, ripe Spring abundance of new life to come! ๐๐๐ผAnyone else spotted their first frogspawn of Spring this week?
Controversial statement alert! Most people donโt want expert/vet advice. Or to match the right dog breed to their lifestyle. Or care about genetic health problems. Or how they are contributing to dog health problems by buying from breeders. They just want a BRAND of dog. Agree?
Why on earth do we chase more extreme genetic mutation, exaggeration & cosmetic surgery mutilation in domestic dogs?! I thought better of you
@AnnekaSvenska
, that you stood for promoting wolf & dog welfare?! This is a backyard breeder get rich quick scheme with its ears cut off!
Exciting news! Tune in to
@BBCSpringwatch
BBC Autumnwatch tonight on BBC Two at 8pm featuring yours truly in search of a mysterious creature that goes squeak in the night.
@DFMTalent
Raw feeding, grain free, โholisticโ dog owner: โMy dogโs a wolf, heโs a carnivore, you donโt see wolves hunting in fields of wheat, do you?!โ
Anyone evidence based: โWell I also donโt see packs of Pugs chasing down Bison on the North American plains Susan, but you do youโ ๐คทโโ๏ธ๐คฆ
You have to jump through endless hoops & stump up significant funds to โreintroduceโ Beavers, a native, protected species behind a Fort Knox fence. A free for all to churn out millions of non native omnivorous birds in our countryside for sport! Go figure!
Here is the lovely Christina Egg-uilera my mate
@Schafernaker
just mentioned on
@BBCBreakfast
along with her gal pals Nelly Frittata, Shelly Rowland and Hennifer Lopez!
As
@ChrisGPackham
says we have an incredible resource in Ealing w/nature & green space, which we need to protect for all communities.
@_petermason
@EalingCouncil
plans to destroy half of Warren Farm for sports facilities will cause our last remaining Skylarks to go extinct.
Never expected to see the Aurora Borealis from my little flat in West London, but hereโs my front door view tonight. Oh planet Earth, you continue to wow me. What a treat. Hope we can turn things around and reconnect as a species with the planet we need to survive.
With bandage splints in its ears to make it look more gremlin like of course, because genetic modification isnโt enough, mechanical body modification is also required. Breeder needs prosecuting, the law is there to prevent torture breeding,
@RSPCA_official
why not take a case?
Anyone else having one of those โexistential dread, angry at the world, fed up of ignorance, eye rolling at everyoneโs preoccupation with Harry & Meghan BS while the planet burns & nothing tangibleโs really being done about it while the media ignores COP15โ kind of days? Just me?
Despondent. Major report by
@WWF
@OfficialZSL
on catastrophic loss of nature came out today. Asked on TV to discuss. Cancelled (without any communication) for a fluff piece about crown effing jewels. If thatโs not symptomatic of our problems not sure what isโฆdonโt you think?!
Letโs return an enormously beneficial native animal that we shot out of existence, give it protected status but allow farmers to shoot it out of existence if itโs being an inconvenience rather than move it on or use effective mitigation steps. Sounds legit
Massive news! Norway today declared it illegal to breed English Bulldogs & Cavalier King Charles Spaniels due to the genetic health problems they suffer. Bans are controversial but I reckon breed societies & kennel clubs have had long enough to tackle this. Donโt you?
All talk, no action on extreme brachycephalic breeding & judging
@Crufts
again this year. I want to hear from
@TheKennelClubUK
@clarebalding
@iamradzi
what they think about these monstrosities of canine deformity being celebrated & awarded in the ring in 2022. Come on. Iโll wait.
Fantastic turnout this evening of 2500-3,000 protesters campaigning to save
@warrenfarmnr
from
@ealingcouncil
@ealinglabour
plans to dewild the site for new sports facilities which could be accommodated elsewhere without destroying one of our most precious ecosystems
Loving the members of shooting community coming to rescue to excuse wildlife crime by sharing their extensive veterinary forensics, diagnostic imaging & ballistics expertise. Super convincing! ๐๐๐ผ Would
@BASCnews
&
@CAupdates
like to condemn this latest raptor shooting incident?
Hey
@lidlgb
&
@smythstoys
, yesterday I rescued your trolleys dumped at Paradise Fields, site of Ealing Beaver Project. The managers in your Westway Cross stores said you may provide sponsorship for local community & environmental initiatives like ours? Let me know! Happy Easter!
Beavers damming very effectively in two locations now at Ealing Beaver Project, delighting me & patrol volunteers in equal measure! Flood repairs overnight. Fantastic watching their progress. We reopen to public on Nov 11th.
Seriously, we all know
@BearGrylls
shows are set up fictitious drama Vs documentary, but he just bought a fancy pet rat from a pet shop, planted it in the forest, heroically caught it, killed it & skinned with bare hands to eat it for TV entertainment. What a knob.
#Gogglebox
Pretty exciting announcement Iโve been sitting on for ages (thanks pandemic!), but can officially now say Iโve been signed by
@DFMTalent
as a wildlife TV presenter!
Have a couple of little projects in the pipeline already. ๐
Ear cropping in dogs. An illegal mutilation in the UK. Yet cropped dogs popping up left, right & centre. Many people donโt even realise itโs a thing. Dogs do not benefit in any way from having half their ears chopped off. Unless they are fighting dogs, which is also illegal..
Iโm going to go out on a limb here and say that the overwhelming reason veterinarians have the highest suicide rate of any profession, & serious issues with depression, burnout & compassion fatigue is...moral distress. Our values just do not align with pet owners. Discuss.
Great to host
@HamzaYassin3
& the Silverback Productions team in Ealing this past couple of days, checking out some of our urban wildlife including our
@WildlifeEaling
Peregrine Falcon nestbox family.
Very clear evidence of overgrazing by deer in a wood this evening. We just have way too many, not enough culling & no natural predators. Our ecosystems are sick & getting sicker. Should we all be eating more venison? Or bringing back Lynx & Wolves? Or both? Love to hear thoughts!
Epic news, govtโs Action Plan for Animal Welfare has committed to ban importation of dogs w/cropped ears. Meaning illegal mutilation of puppies by unscrupulous breeders will no longer go unchallenged. A massive win for animal welfare!
@BritishVets
@theFOALGroup
@jordanwshelley
๐ธ๐จBREAKING NEWS;
@EalingCouncil
are giving
#WarrenFarmNR
Local Nature Reserve status๐จ๐ธYes, you read that correctly!๐ฆWeโre in shock, delighted & beyond grateful to YOU for giving our
#wildlife
a voice!๐ผ๐ฆThank you!โบ๏ธ๐ Pls read our statement here๐๐ผ ๐ฆ
@BillOddie
Was delighted to spot you as I arrived to lead a bat walk on the Heath a few weeks ago, was tempted to come over & ask if you wanted to join us, but you looked like a man on a mission & I didnโt want to intrude. Sorry to hear things have been tough. Youโre a legend in my eyes.
@GaryDickenson
Who knew nature wasnโt neat and tidy and orderly like a lovely old lawn?! Fantastic habitat disturbance there creating dynamic ecosystems and opening up new niches for pioneering flora and fauna. Boar at their best! ๐๐ผ
Well a new study has blown the lid on just how inbred pedigree dogs really are using new genetic/DNA analyses. And itโs pretty shocking. Papers and pedigrees are just documents showing how closely related your dog is to its relatives. We need to radically change dog breeding!
Two chicks hatched now, lovely tender family scenes all day, Dusty here feeding this evening. Hoping remaining two eggs hatch tonight/tomorrow, if it goes much longer than that we might be out of luck. But two healthy chicks is great news! Tune in here:
Most donโt realise harm their dogs are doing tearing around off lead across our coasts & countryside. And sorry to say as a vet & dog lover there are too many of them doing just that in a biodiversity crisis with one in seven wild species in the UK threatened with extinction.
For
@hakaimagazine
, I wrote about beach dogs, which are both shockingly harmful to coastal ecosystems *and* a wildly contentious political issue. Note: I am not w/out sin when it comes to letting my little killer roam free!
Let the angry emails commence.
Super excited to have installed a brand new peregrine falcon nestbox & solar powered trailcamera on Ealing Hospital. Hopefully the pair roosting on the building, named Freddie & Dusty after local music legends by
@WildlifeEaling
members, will find it to their liking ๐ค๐ป
Hereโs my statement on behalf of
@WildlifeEaling
to recent announcement on Warren Farm plans by
@EalingCouncil
leader
@_petermason
which claims rewilding when actually they are dewilding & will likely cause local extinction of Skylarks in the borough:
Controversial opinion alert. But would people stop abducting fledgling birds from their parents this time of year please? Youโre not a saviour, youโre a predator! Leave the baby bird alone. It will not survive after release from a wildlife rescue as it doesnโt know how to forage
Very excited to say we now have two chicks hatched at our
@WildlifeEaling
Peregrine webcam! Two eggs still to go, fingers crossed. You can watch the live action here:
Courtship has begun at our
@WildlifeEaling
Peregrine Falcon nest box. Freddie bowing, calling and pebble arranging for his queen Dusty to impress her & cement their pair bond. Camera going live next week now tech issues sorted, so you can follow their breeding season in 2023.
You wouldnโt believe the amount of inbreeding going on with pedigree dogs, including Elton the Crufts winning Frenchie competing for Best in Show tomorrow, hailed as perfect by Kennel Club judges & has produced BOAS dogs! Seriously problematic, hereโs the breakdown!
#crufts
Very happy to see the Manchester venue have also now cancelled the mutilated Bully parade, credit to
@BowlersMcr
for recognising that glamorising cosmetic surgery in pets for a tough guy, status dog (read โtiny-D energy) is not a good look for their brand.
Paradise Fields, our proposed Beaver reintroduction project. A unique site endorsed by
@BeaverTrust
as one of the most suitable London habitats to learn to live alongside this keystone species again in urban areas. Hoping
@NaturalEngland
have vision & bravery to grant a licence!
@MatthewJBruce
A single coloured ring with visible alphanumerical code observable through binoculars and scope might do it. Six rings of any description is just excessive. Letโs call a spade a spade. Touched a nerve? The bird is laden with plastic crap quite frankly.
What the hell is wrong with people?!
@amazon
need to take this off immediately! Home surgery on dogs for aesthetic reasons does not belong in a civilised society.
That sickening feeling when you realise US
@amazon
are selling & shipping DIY ear cropping kits to the UK! Itโs time to blow away the smokescreen covering up illegal cropping in the UK by banning the importation of cropped dogs. Sign:
#FlopNotCrop
With an almost doubling of cases of dog theft since the pandemic started, now is time to be vigilant. Buyers beware. How we're buying dogs right now is not sustainable and can also lead to welfare issues with irresponsible breeding.
#PetTheftReform
#PetTheft
'Beware of the online ads. Think about why someone would be selling an adult family pet.'
With dognapping on the rise in the UK,
@ThatVetSean
shares the warning signs to look out for when buying a dog online.
Watch in full โก๏ธ
GOOD NEWS! We
@WildlifeEaling
had an urgent meeting w/
@EalingCouncil
this afternoon. Cllr
@deirdrecostigan
assured us they are informing Junction 2 it cannot go ahead on Horsenden West. They realise itโs a total mismatch & the ecological impact at this site would be too great
Cracking Polecat pair at British Wildlife Centre. A species recovering from a low of 5000 confined to rural Wales due to persecution, now estimated at 46000 animals spreading widely across England. Iโve found one as roadkill as far east as Cambridgeshire. Have you seen one?
@JemimaHarrison
With bandage splints in its ears to make it look more gremlin like of course, because genetic modification isnโt enough, mechanical body modification is also required. Breeder needs prosecuting, the law is there to prevent torture breeding,
@RSPCA_official
why not take a case?
Fantastic to share with His Majesty The King today all of our achievements with amazing volunteers
@WildlifeEaling
including the Ealing Beaver Project too of course. 1st Ealing group to have got the
@KingsAwardVS
, gifting him with a beaver print by local artist Milly Mills.
Taylor Swift, what on earth have you done?! Biggest pop star on the planet featuring a surgically mutilated, ear cropped AND tail docked Doberman in her latest video with Post Malone. 21M views in a day. Sheโs never spoken out on her Scottish Fold cats either, born to suffer! ๐คฆ
Recorded voiceover this afternoon for an important TV piece on the grotesque rise in the dog ear cropping trend. Bringing the discussion mainstream and primetime very soon. Watch this space!
Aghast. Gaslit. Sad. I care about inequality & children. Nature is in crisis, we canโt live without it. โOne of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymenโ - Aldo Leopold
This feels very much like taking advantage of a rarity, exacerbating the stress caused by ringing anyway, to release it to a rapturous audience of twitchers in the morning, donโt you think?! โRoosted overnightโ means kept in a tiny cloth bag on a wall hook btw! ๐
Exciting news!
Unexpected catch for
@ryemeadsrg
this evening while trying for reed bunting, Penduline Tit! Due to the late hour the bird will be roosted over night and released tomorrow (Saturday 11 Nov 23). Gates will open at 7am for prompt release at 7.15am.
#hertsbird
On the eve of
#crufts2020
@Crufts
I & other vets & journalists concerned about the welfare of pedigree dogs & impact of show judges on dog health were blocked by the official
#kennelclub
account before we had even started talking about this yearโs show...
Vegan cats! Is that really a thing? It is, and a study out this week claims theyโre healthier than cats fed meat based diets. Hereโs why thatโs a flawed argument. What do you think? Should we impose our dietary choices on our pets?
@fieldsportstv
@ChrisGPackham
How embarrassing to publicly deny raptor persecution by saying โconvictions nearly nilโ. Itโs like saying โIโm glad none of the rapists in our club got caughtโ. Just wow. ๐คฏ
Another day, another shallow celeb parading mutilated dogs on social media for klout, to make himself look hard. What gives
@JesseLingard
? And do you think this is a good look for your player
@NFFC
@EnglandFootball
? A cosmetic mutilation illegal on animal cruelty grounds! Pls RT
This is what vets deal with day in, day out, emotional rollercoasters for naturally empathetic, caring people whoโve dedicated their lives to helping animals & people. Tonight I had two owners of ear cropped Dobermans abuse me in DMs about my awareness campaign. Fuck them both!
Look at this poor English Bulldog, many need to sleep in these odd positions to keep their airway open so they donโt suffocate during sleep. This poor chap had to have a permanent trachy tube in his neck to breathe. Dogs bred to suffer, itโs terrible.
@ThatVetSean
I agree: I love bullies but would never buy/breed one. We have a rescue EBD who sadly needed a permanent trachy due to his severe BOAS. Apparently heโs KC registeredโฆ๐คฆ๐ผโโ๏ธ๐ญ (heโs snoozing in the pic!)
Fun morning on
@thismorning
yesterday with
@Rylan
&
@RuthieeL
flying the flag for the wonder of wasps, why theyโre important & how not to get stung. Despite what tabloids say, weโre not being invaded by an army of drunken wasps from Germany wanting to sting us.
@DFMTalent
Shocking the number of grown men arguing the toss about whether Xray is a hoax (because itโs on the parrot Xray machine setting) or that shot pattern means the bird wasnโt killed by the shot. Shooters of course, bringing their hobby into disrepute. Vet forensics not their fortรฉ!
Our
@WildlifeEaling
Peregrines have hatched two chicks, and looks like at least one more of the four eggs laid may hatch this evening/overnight. You can watch the family antics 24/7 & rewind the previous 12 hours of action on our Youtube channel:
Brilliant article, and the comment to nail it for me is this: โI run a small animal practice and am always amazed when people complain about a ยฃ37 consult fee having spent ยฃ3k on a mongrel!โ
This is disingenous to the extreme, the site is already rewilded. The boroughโs only breeding Skylarks, red listed birds of highest conservation concern, rely on large expanses of open grassland. Taking half will mean their end. Not a suitable location for new sports grounds.
Warren Farm looks set to receive London Nature Reserve (LNR) status, kickstarting Londonโs largest rewilding project, alongside vital new community sports facilities: